Jeff Legwold says that the Falcons are tired of waiting and have withdrawn their offer to Billy Volek. That leaves the Bills as the lone suitor for Volek. Let the Bledsoe-Volek quarterback controversy begin in Buffalo.

Vito Stellino writes a very good NFL Sunday column for the Jacksonville Times-Union. In explaining the Tampa Bay situation with John Lynch a little more honestly than Ron Borges, he provides the following:

Naturally, the decision of former Raiders coach Jon Gruden and front office executive Bruce Allen to send Lynch packing didn’t go over well. A Tampa Tribune columnist wrote: “Sure, football is a business. But this was brutal. With all the delicacy of a Sopranos whacking, Raiders East stuck one of its growing collection of long knives in Lynch’s back. The Shock and Awe campaign rolls on.” Here